Restorationist Party

The Restorationist Party, also known as the Caramuru Party, was a reactionary political party in Brazil which existed from 1831 to 1834. The party was founded by an alliance of Portuguese merchants, bureaucrats, and military men who defended the return of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil to Brazil, and they defended a strongly centralized monarchist regime and the establishment of Catholicism as the state religion (allowing for domestic worship by all other religions, but not the construction of churches or temple exteriors). The party disbanded after Pedro's death in 1834, and its remaining members, the Chimangos, migrated to the Conservative Party of Brazil.